Microsoft's Treacherous Computing

Microsoft is trying some strange skullduggery with its partners in
Treacherous Computing.

Treacherous Computing is an open conspiracy of computer
manufacturers with Hollywood, intended to turn your future computers
into a platform for DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) that
software cannot bypass. Not satisfied with laws like the DMCA that make free software
such as DeCSS illegal, they seek to make it impossible as well.

To cloud the issue, they cite various side issues (such as
vaguely-defined "security") as goals. They are also producing a list
of vague principles that reject some of the malicious uses of the
system (but not the principal malicious use, which is DRM itself).
But Microsoft is
stalling publication of the list, which suggests it plans to
implement some of those rejected malicious uses too.